Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
IntroductionChapter 1
Racism and hate crime
Chapter 2
Immigration control and racially motivated hatred 1900 - to the early 1960s
Chapter 3
Racially motivated discrimination, extremist rhetoric and immigration control 1960 - to the early 1980s
Chapter 4
Policing, social disorder and responding to racially motivated offending in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 5
Legislating against racially aggravated offending: from the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to the Macpherson Report
Chapter 6
Islamophobia and the social cohesion agenda
Chapter 7
Contemporary political extremism
Chapter 8
The Response to Hate Crime: From 2010 - Brexit
Chapter 9
Conclusion: Hate crime - Brexit and beyond.
Index
Synopsis
-Offers an in-depth discussion of racial and religious hate crime in the UK and also beyond
-Focusses on 1945 until present with some additional attention to the 1930s when anti-Semitism was especially prominent in the UK
- Devotes particular attention to the political context within which racial and religious hate crime has arisen and to the political organisations that promote the politics of hate
-Draw upon it's authors' backgrounds in criminology, globalization and politics